Is anyone else nervous about the car ride home after filling a propane tank? We usually wedge whatever we can find in the car around the tank to prevent it from tipping over- once we even took our shoes off and used them. But check out the TankNanny. It was designed by a local Boston company to be sort of a car seat for your propane tank.
We're always nervous on the drive home after refilling the propane tank for our gas grill, imagining all sorts of scenarios where we have to use the brakes hard and the tank might fall over and spill. It has never happened, but we'd feel a lot better if it was secured with something like this. The TankNanny sort of hugs your tank and even has a slot for a seatbelt to slip through. It's made out of recycled plastic and can even be used to hold groceries or take-out food when your propane tank is at home.
We heard about TankNanny from a cool local site, Daily Grommet. Daily Grommet handpicks and sells one unique item a day, and its always something that has that sort of underground, indie vibe that none of your friends have seen before. The folks who run the site are a lot of fun, and are committed to helping out small companies who have invented interesting things, many of them local as well.
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This is so stupid. I say that with love. My Fiance refuses to go get a refill when we run out because he's afraid of the tank. He makes ME go.
*headdesk*
:)
Last I knew it was illegal to transport a propane tank in the passenger area.
And I don't have seatbelts in my trunk, do you?
tank ninny is more like it. do you guys get paid for posting this kind of thing or what? seems like a thinly veiled advert for this useless product.
I worry about a LOT of things. This is not one of them.
Another useless plastic product that will be filling landfills for thousands of years. woo hoo.
we always used a milk crate... but I suppose you aren't allowed to say that because you can't buy those...
Wendy: You rock.
I haven't ever worried about this...I guess I'm living on the edge because I throw it in the back of the car and go on about my business. Seriously, a sucker born every minute, eh?
We use a milk crate, too! And you can buy things like them at Target, etc. So much easier and more useful.
I do worry about this, but I just wedge it into the floor space behind the passenger seat -- cushioned with a couple of pool towels or something. A personal seat for it isn't on my long list of "wants."
In other words, if you're asking "hot or not," I say, "not" unless you have the extra dough to spend and you're driving on a mountain road or something.
I usually just drag mine behind the car with a chain. That way, if it explodes it's BEHIND the car and I'm driving AWAY from it.
What mattster said.
I put the propane tank in the back seat and buckle it in with a seat belt. I probably would try not to drive around with it all day, but I don't obsess over it either.
Also, I think this description is hilarious "...underground, indie vibe that none of your friends have seen before...". I think real friends would make fun of you for buying such a dorky item.